I hope that Ms. Barr realizes that she is a troll, but sadly most do not even know what they are doing.
Lexis Nexus and Westlaw don't own a monopoly on the law, but they do have a monopoly on publishing it via the internet. The only thing that I would like to see is ability for more companies to be able to publish the law, creating competition for these seach engines.
It's expensive to keep all that data online , easily referenced, and searchable. But that doesn't mean that they should be able to gouge us. More competition in this area would be good.
Also, these guys should really talk to google, Lexis Nexus lets you search for free, (though payment is required for viewing). What about a search on Google that mixed references to the law in with your normal search results?
Plex86 is a VM that requires that it be run on an actual x86 chip, it virtualizes the code that is running inside the VM so that the code thinks it's got access to it's own machine when in fact it does not, but is running as a user process in linux.
So you can run Windows inside linux, or linux inside linux. They all have to be for the x86 though. But I don't know how well it works.
Bochs is the emulator that runs code for the x86 on ANY processor, PPC, Sparc, whatever it will compile on. So that you could run Windows on a Sparc or a Mac. Though I don't know if it works THAT well.
[quote]Sometimes you have to make sacrifices early on, for a better pay off later. [/quote]
Yeah, like buy a cheaper house, or send your kids to a state college (or like my parents did, make me pay for the bulk of college). Nobody told you that you have to buy that new car, that PS2 or the big screen TV (or a TV at all). Maybe the reason that people are working 80 hour jobs is that they can't afford what they are buying in the first place (one reason we see so many cyberbegging sites online).
But who wants infinite bandwidth? I want zero latency in the lines.
I'd even take 56k modem speeds if I could get zero latency. ( assuming that you actually could push 56k over them). Because esp. modems, have crappy crappy latency.
If you could download someones hard drive in a second, but it takes an hour to tell them that you want to download it (because of latency) that's not a fair tradeoff.
Since Intel owns USB I'd say that ther probably will be a USB 3 and 4.
The whole design of USB is to push all the heavy lifting onto the CPU and away from the device. This makes it cheaper to implement USB on the device and makes the fastest CPUs look good. Also makes those with slow machines want to get new ones because their new device is slowing them down. When in fact all they need is a better bus in the first place.
This doesn't much apply to things like MICE or Keyboards or any low speed device. Devices like CD-ROMs, Web Cams, or any device that might require a lot of bandwidth can easily eat up a lot of CPU if not implemented correctly (both in driver and in hardware).
1. Sex: Nobody wants to see any of the old flabby asses of TNG crew anymore. They are too old. Get a new sexxy crew if you want to direct a porno.
2. Crazy Psychic Sex: Even worse, some guy sees a girl for the first time and has psychic sex with her. Doesn't make a good plot.
3. Buggys (aka toys): Ok, must they introduce a new toy in every movie? I don't think that makes sense.
4. Obvious plot continuations: Data will return, at least with spock you had to guess.
5. No character development: Picard's clone wasn't developed very well. I felt nothing for him. The sex scenes should to have been cut and turned into scenes where this character was developed. Also, the exploration of 'would Picard turned out like this if he were raised in a death camp.' Was weak and not very thought provoking.
You're only half right, because the 64-bit extension to the x86 ISA that the Opteron implements also includes more registers. I believe that it doubles the number of registers avaliable as well as extending the current set to 64-bits.
Thus you get much more bang for the buck. Any program recompiled for the x86-64 ISA will probably run faster then the same program compiled for x86-32 just because of this reason.
Also the Opteron is supposed to run programs in 32-bit mode faster then the current athlon procs do. But we will see when they come out.
I've got a similar problem with a 867Mhz one that I just bought.
It only charges up to 97-99%. I've found that if I then unplug it for like 10 minutes or so, that it will usually charge all the way up to 100%. Though if I then use it for a couple more hours sometimes the charge drops back down to 97%.
I really don't know if this is a problem or not. I'd rather have a batery that always charges to %97 and then a dead battery that charges to 100%.
If it causes any problem, then I've got a year to detect it though. You can always buy applecare if you really think it will be a problem. Though I do wish that there was a supplier of non-apple batterys for the Powerbooks so that I could compare between them if I wanted.
I am glad that I got a Mac though. This computer is awesome.
Shouldn't the OS automatically direct the applications you are using to the 'free' processor? Aren't you being a little obsessive-compulsive about making sure that your processors are being used? The whole point of SMP is that you as the user shouldn't have to CARE about which processor a task is running on because the machine takes care of the leg work for you.
Yes, if you give a thread processor-affinity, then sometimes it will run faster since the caches are alredy loaded for that thread. (hopefully) However, that should be the job of the OS and not the user. I mean then you end up spending time on making your computer run faster which negates the fact that you have a faster computer.
Right now the only console that has RPGs worth playing is the PS1/2. If you don't have a PS1/2, then you won't be playing games that last more then 80 hours on average. Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Lunar, Ring of Red, Xenogears, etc. The GC and XBox don't have as many games that last as long as RPGs do.
This comment is modded funny, but this is a serious concern. I personally will take a wait and see attitude with this game and WAIT until the actual reviews of the hard core people are posted on the internet.
Also one HOPES that all the crashes are gone for good. I always like to wait for the first patch to come out until I buy a product:).
I still play MOO2 sometimes. The ironic thing is that it actually plays better (to me) in linux in wine then under win2k. In linux it doesn't have sound, but in windows the screen goes wonky and I can't click anymore (the cursor dissapears).
But all negativity aside, I will eventuatly buy this game. How soon depends on wether or not the first version is playable. That and I don't NEED to lose a month of my life just yet.
Dude, make up your mind and stop being such a troll.
If you support denying children privilidges, then fine, do so. But don't come back and say that you don't suppoty controling all aspects of a childs life because that's basically what you are saying.
I do think that children should have access to books, videogames, movies, etc. If your children couldn't get access to these materials without the parent's consent then we would have a nation of people less educated then we already have. I'm thinking more of teenagers here, when you are actually capable of digesting great works of art and literature.
We are too focused on one thing to realize that kids don't have to be told what they can and can not do as long as you provide a constructive pattern to live their lives by.
Also don't forget that RPG maker came out years before NWN and took much less time to develop. In short, it's not as grand of a design as NWN. So of course it's not as good.
PC games are very good because you can mod them, but I notice that anyone who says 'have you downloaded a mod recently' also points to like the 5 mods that are any good.
Yes, it's wicked cool that you can actually make a mod for a game in the PC. Hell, you can actually mod any game with the PC, they've been doing it for 25 years now. Since the days of the first home PC's. Consoles lock you out of your game, so that you can only play what you bought, no more.
However, how many mods are actually any good? I downloaded every Doom, Half-Life, and Quake mod that I could get my hands on and you know what. Most suck! 99% of them are really really bad. Almost every Map on the UT sites are unplayable. If you count by volume. That's cause it's really really hard to make a good map.
To me, this almost takes away one of the coolest advantages that computers have over consoles. The fact that you have to download and search through all the CRAP maps in order to find the few that are true gems sucks. It takes a lot of time, which is something that many people don't have.
Back in HS/College I could spend the hours upon hours required to find the cool maps, hacks and whatnot. But now that I have a 9-5 job and other stuff, I don't have the ambition to go on the internet and find all those things anymore. It's just not fun anymore.
That's why I like consoles, because they are easy. I can also switch back and forth between the simpsons and my game (both at once if I had PIP) without haveing my console either crash or be degraded in performance.
BTW, there are games similar to NWN on the console. There is a game called RPG maker for PSOne (also Fighter Maker too!). That lets you make simple RPG games that fit on your memory card. Of course sharing these games it a PITA, but the software exists.
Let's say that you want a 9700, but can't afford it because you've only got so much money. However, you can afford the cheaper 9500 and still ahve a little left over. How much do you think a professional modder will charge to modify a 9500?
I would be willing to bet that most pro modders would charge you at least $40. How many pro modders will give you a %100 chance of it working?
If you know how to modify a graphics card it's cheaper. But the unmodded card costs more then the different between the 2 cards. So WHY? If you mess it up. Or more likley, the cheap card is just not modifiable, then you've wasted everyone's time and money.
Most people doing this are hobbiests, who are trying to squeeze every penny. Why? Cause playing with their computers is more important then using them.
One question that I have is that, no matter what aren't you going to introduce some sort of latency into this system? I mean just by virtue of re-broadcasting the signal aren't you going to have some sort of new latency in the system that wasn't there before?
To me, latency in cell phones is really bad, and I hope that it only gets better as technology improves. Even though more bandwidth seems like a good idea at first, we need to reduce latency before increasing bandwidth, IMO.
Argh, this paper starts with an interesting idea, that PLs are more like OSes then we realize it, provides some genesis for the idea, but FAILS to back it up..
All of his examples, the bulk of the paper, are examples of how the RUNTIME system restricts the PL. He talks about the runtime system security model and somehow this is supposed to extend to the definition of the programming language? No, this is not how it works. The runtime system, the sandbox or whatever you call it, is a restriction defined seperatly from the language itself. The JVM is defined seperatly from the Java language. That's why products like JET exist that can compile Java code to something other then bytecode. Because the runtime enviroment is not defined in the language. You don't have to have a security manager, like in perl, you don't have to support a trusted mode in your perl runtime. It's a feature of the runtime, not the language.
The runtime, by definition is like a mini-OS. Usually, a vm runtime (for perl, java, python, etc...) takes non-native instructions, parses them and translates them into some sort of binary instruction. Since there is no processor that can execute perl natively, this is how it works.
if you are programming for free, then yes, you can and will be taken advantage of.
Coding, is like any of those other things you jsut described, a service. Coding itself produces something that can be reused easily. Unlike seting up a server, which is subject to many different factors that cause more service to be incurred, once a program is written, it probably won't have to be rewritten as long as the operating enviroment is the same.
I think that most people who are coding for free realize that they will most likely not get paid for their work. Rather, they expect that they will be paid in kudos from other coders.
Not just OSS but all computers will die without users and programmers. Users to tell programmers what they want and programmers to write it. Some programmers are avid users and drive requirements themselves, some only work when the carrot of a paycheck is dangled in front of them.
People were trading source to programs before the GPL. Notice that the internet was the reason that the GPL exploded. All OSS needs to survive is low cost communication. As long as there are programmers, people will trade source and programs made. The best will come from large, orginized shops (most likley), but some gems will come from the masses.
Some people will say that this is a 'bad thing' but really it won't affect much because surprise surprise, most people don't sit on the apple update site and wait for the next upgrade of their software. Most people ARE still using the software that came with their computers. If they get a new piece of hardware they don't bother to download the newest drivers and software but rather use what was included in the box. This affects the powerusers, but generally, why do you need to upgrade SOMETHING THAT WORKS! Apple, unlike many other companies, makes products that work rather well. If you can burn dvd movies on your computer, why do you need a newer version of the software. Most of the time all the software does is add support for a newer computer, rather then do more stuff. This is not always the case but generally new version of software do what the last version did, only with more support. Yes, this sucks when the new version is faster, or has more options, but if you are buying a machine because on the box it says that 'sometime in the future it will do this ______' then maybe you should wait until that time comes before you buy it, or change what you think the machine should do. It's not like the old version won't work anymore, just like to people who use Win95, the people will old versions of iDVD and iMovie will still be able to use their computers, but just not be 'on the cutting edge'. Being on the cutting edge is expensive, hate to break it to you.
Slashdot Mirror
see this link
http://web.lexis.com/xchange/ccsubs/cc_prods.asp
They offer pay by credit card, and even allow you to have unlimited access to their service within a time period. (though not to everything it seems)
I don't think you have to be a fully accredited lawyer to get access to their system. You just have to pay them.
I hope that Ms. Barr realizes that she is a troll, but sadly most do not even know what they are doing.
Lexis Nexus and Westlaw don't own a monopoly on the law, but they do have a monopoly on publishing it via the internet. The only thing that I would like to see is ability for more companies to be able to publish the law, creating competition for these seach engines.
It's expensive to keep all that data online , easily referenced, and searchable. But that doesn't mean that they should be able to gouge us. More competition in this area would be good.
Also, these guys should really talk to google, Lexis Nexus lets you search for free, (though payment is required for viewing). What about a search on Google that mixed references to the law in with your normal search results?
Plex86 is a VM that requires that it be run on an actual x86 chip, it virtualizes the code that is running inside the VM so that the code thinks it's got access to it's own machine when in fact it does not, but is running as a user process in linux.
So you can run Windows inside linux, or linux inside linux. They all have to be for the x86 though. But I don't know how well it works.
Bochs is the emulator that runs code for the x86 on ANY processor, PPC, Sparc, whatever it will compile on. So that you could run Windows on a Sparc or a Mac. Though I don't know if it works THAT well.
[quote]Sometimes you have to make sacrifices early on, for a better pay off later. [/quote]
Yeah, like buy a cheaper house, or send your kids to a state college (or like my parents did, make me pay for the bulk of college). Nobody told you that you have to buy that new car, that PS2 or the big screen TV (or a TV at all). Maybe the reason that people are working 80 hour jobs is that they can't afford what they are buying in the first place (one reason we see so many cyberbegging sites online).
Any PC that I build has at least a gig of ram, it's so cheap and makes your computer fly. Never having to swap to disk really means a lot.
When I buy my next computer it'll be 64-bit so I can easily use a gig of ram for each process on my machine.
But who wants infinite bandwidth? I want zero latency in the lines.
I'd even take 56k modem speeds if I could get zero latency. ( assuming that you actually could push 56k over them). Because esp. modems, have crappy crappy latency.
If you could download someones hard drive in a second, but it takes an hour to tell them that you want to download it (because of latency) that's not a fair tradeoff.
OTOH, Firewire supplys up to 60W, I can't find the voltage info, but it's much more.
This page has more info about the firewire spec and power requirements.
Since Intel owns USB I'd say that ther probably will be a USB 3 and 4.
The whole design of USB is to push all the heavy lifting onto the CPU and away from the device. This makes it cheaper to implement USB on the device and makes the fastest CPUs look good. Also makes those with slow machines want to get new ones because their new device is slowing them down. When in fact all they need is a better bus in the first place.
This doesn't much apply to things like MICE or Keyboards or any low speed device. Devices like CD-ROMs, Web Cams, or any device that might require a lot of bandwidth can easily eat up a lot of CPU if not implemented correctly (both in driver and in hardware).
1. Sex: Nobody wants to see any of the old flabby asses of TNG crew anymore. They are too old. Get a new sexxy crew if you want to direct a porno.
2. Crazy Psychic Sex: Even worse, some guy sees a girl for the first time and has psychic sex with her. Doesn't make a good plot.
3. Buggys (aka toys): Ok, must they introduce a new toy in every movie? I don't think that makes sense.
4. Obvious plot continuations: Data will return, at least with spock you had to guess.
5. No character development: Picard's clone wasn't developed very well. I felt nothing for him. The sex scenes should to have been cut and turned into scenes where this character was developed. Also, the exploration of 'would Picard turned out like this if he were raised in a death camp.' Was weak and not very thought provoking.
You're only half right, because the 64-bit extension to the x86 ISA that the Opteron implements also includes more registers. I believe that it doubles the number of registers avaliable as well as extending the current set to 64-bits.
Thus you get much more bang for the buck. Any program recompiled for the x86-64 ISA will probably run faster then the same program compiled for x86-32 just because of this reason.
Also the Opteron is supposed to run programs in 32-bit mode faster then the current athlon procs do. But we will see when they come out.
I've got a similar problem with a 867Mhz one that I just bought.
It only charges up to 97-99%. I've found that if I then unplug it for like 10 minutes or so, that it will usually charge all the way up to 100%. Though if I then use it for a couple more hours sometimes the charge drops back down to 97%.
I really don't know if this is a problem or not. I'd rather have a batery that always charges to %97 and then a dead battery that charges to 100%.
If it causes any problem, then I've got a year to detect it though. You can always buy applecare if you really think it will be a problem. Though I do wish that there was a supplier of non-apple batterys for the Powerbooks so that I could compare between them if I wanted.
I am glad that I got a Mac though. This computer is awesome.
Shouldn't the OS automatically direct the applications you are using to the 'free' processor? Aren't you being a little obsessive-compulsive about making sure that your processors are being used?
The whole point of SMP is that you as the user shouldn't have to CARE about which processor a task is running on because the machine takes care of the leg work for you.
Yes, if you give a thread processor-affinity, then sometimes it will run faster since the caches are alredy loaded for that thread. (hopefully) However, that should be the job of the OS and not the user. I mean then you end up spending time on making your computer run faster which negates the fact that you have a faster computer.
Thank you JeffK!
Your opinion means soooo much to us here, since you were running an alpha version of a game that won't come out for at least a year.
Doom 3 will be the reason to buy a video card in 2004.
Right now the only console that has RPGs worth playing is the PS1/2. If you don't have a PS1/2, then you won't be playing games that last more then 80 hours on average. Final Fantasy, Wild Arms, Lunar, Ring of Red, Xenogears, etc. The GC and XBox don't have as many games that last as long as RPGs do.
This comment is modded funny, but this is a serious concern. I personally will take a wait and see attitude with this game and WAIT until the actual reviews of the hard core people are posted on the internet.
:).
Also one HOPES that all the crashes are gone for good. I always like to wait for the first patch to come out until I buy a product
I still play MOO2 sometimes. The ironic thing is that it actually plays better (to me) in linux in wine then under win2k. In linux it doesn't have sound, but in windows the screen goes wonky and I can't click anymore (the cursor dissapears).
But all negativity aside, I will eventuatly buy this game. How soon depends on wether or not the first version is playable. That and I don't NEED to lose a month of my life just yet.
Dude, make up your mind and stop being such a troll.
If you support denying children privilidges, then fine, do so. But don't come back and say that you don't suppoty controling all aspects of a childs life because that's basically what you are saying.
I do think that children should have access to books, videogames, movies, etc. If your children couldn't get access to these materials without the parent's consent then we would have a nation of people less educated then we already have. I'm thinking more of teenagers here, when you are actually capable of digesting great works of art and literature.
We are too focused on one thing to realize that kids don't have to be told what they can and can not do as long as you provide a constructive pattern to live their lives by.
Also don't forget that RPG maker came out years before NWN and took much less time to develop. In short, it's not as grand of a design as NWN. So of course it's not as good.
PC games are very good because you can mod them, but I notice that anyone who says 'have you downloaded a mod recently' also points to like the 5 mods that are any good.
Yes, it's wicked cool that you can actually make a mod for a game in the PC. Hell, you can actually mod any game with the PC, they've been doing it for 25 years now. Since the days of the first home PC's. Consoles lock you out of your game, so that you can only play what you bought, no more.
However, how many mods are actually any good? I downloaded every Doom, Half-Life, and Quake mod that I could get my hands on and you know what. Most suck! 99% of them are really really bad. Almost every Map on the UT sites are unplayable. If you count by volume. That's cause it's really really hard to make a good map.
To me, this almost takes away one of the coolest advantages that computers have over consoles. The fact that you have to download and search through all the CRAP maps in order to find the few that are true gems sucks. It takes a lot of time, which is something that many people don't have.
Back in HS/College I could spend the hours upon hours required to find the cool maps, hacks and whatnot. But now that I have a 9-5 job and other stuff, I don't have the ambition to go on the internet and find all those things anymore. It's just not fun anymore.
That's why I like consoles, because they are easy. I can also switch back and forth between the simpsons and my game (both at once if I had PIP) without haveing my console either crash or be degraded in performance.
BTW, there are games similar to NWN on the console. There is a game called RPG maker for PSOne (also Fighter Maker too!). That lets you make simple RPG games that fit on your memory card. Of course sharing these games it a PITA, but the software exists.
DNF was named correctly, it will take them forever to write it.
Let's say that you want a 9700, but can't afford it because you've only got so much money. However, you can afford the cheaper 9500 and still ahve a little left over. How much do you think a professional modder will charge to modify a 9500?
I would be willing to bet that most pro modders would charge you at least $40. How many pro modders will give you a %100 chance of it working?
If you know how to modify a graphics card it's cheaper. But the unmodded card costs more then the different between the 2 cards. So WHY? If you mess it up. Or more likley, the cheap card is just not modifiable, then you've wasted everyone's time and money.
Most people doing this are hobbiests, who are trying to squeeze every penny. Why? Cause playing with their computers is more important then using them.
One question that I have is that, no matter what aren't you going to introduce some sort of latency into this system? I mean just by virtue of re-broadcasting the signal aren't you going to have some sort of new latency in the system that wasn't there before?
To me, latency in cell phones is really bad, and I hope that it only gets better as technology improves. Even though more bandwidth seems like a good idea at first, we need to reduce latency before increasing bandwidth, IMO.
Argh, this paper starts with an interesting idea, that PLs are more like OSes then we realize it, provides some genesis for the idea, but FAILS to back it up..
All of his examples, the bulk of the paper, are examples of how the RUNTIME system restricts the PL. He talks about the runtime system security model and somehow this is supposed to extend to the definition of the programming language? No, this is not how it works. The runtime system, the sandbox or whatever you call it, is a restriction defined seperatly from the language itself. The JVM is defined seperatly from the Java language. That's why products like JET exist that can compile Java code to something other then bytecode. Because the runtime enviroment is not defined in the language. You don't have to have a security manager, like in perl, you don't have to support a trusted mode in your perl runtime. It's a feature of the runtime, not the language.
The runtime, by definition is like a mini-OS. Usually, a vm runtime (for perl, java, python, etc...) takes non-native instructions, parses them and translates them into some sort of binary instruction. Since there is no processor that can execute perl natively, this is how it works.
Neat idea, bad paper.
Your boyhood dreams of growing up to be a volumptious woman with a wife at home waiting can come true?
Ah... whatever.
if you are programming for free, then yes, you can and will be taken advantage of.
Coding, is like any of those other things you jsut described, a service. Coding itself produces something that can be reused easily. Unlike seting up a server, which is subject to many different factors that cause more service to be incurred, once a program is written, it probably won't have to be rewritten as long as the operating enviroment is the same.
I think that most people who are coding for free realize that they will most likely not get paid for their work. Rather, they expect that they will be paid in kudos from other coders.
Not just OSS but all computers will die without users and programmers. Users to tell programmers what they want and programmers to write it. Some programmers are avid users and drive requirements themselves, some only work when the carrot of a paycheck is dangled in front of them.
People were trading source to programs before the GPL. Notice that the internet was the reason that the GPL exploded. All OSS needs to survive is low cost communication. As long as there are programmers, people will trade source and programs made. The best will come from large, orginized shops (most likley), but some gems will come from the masses.
Some people will say that this is a 'bad thing' but really it won't affect much because surprise surprise, most people don't sit on the apple update site and wait for the next upgrade of their software. Most people ARE still using the software that came with their computers. If they get a new piece of hardware they don't bother to download the newest drivers and software but rather use what was included in the box. This affects the powerusers, but generally, why do you need to upgrade SOMETHING THAT WORKS!
Apple, unlike many other companies, makes products that work rather well. If you can burn dvd movies on your computer, why do you need a newer version of the software. Most of the time all the software does is add support for a newer computer, rather then do more stuff. This is not always the case but generally new version of software do what the last version did, only with more support.
Yes, this sucks when the new version is faster, or has more options, but if you are buying a machine because on the box it says that 'sometime in the future it will do this ______' then maybe you should wait until that time comes before you buy it, or change what you think the machine should do.
It's not like the old version won't work anymore, just like to people who use Win95, the people will old versions of iDVD and iMovie will still be able to use their computers, but just not be 'on the cutting edge'. Being on the cutting edge is expensive, hate to break it to you.